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Michelle’s 10 Scary Movies I love to watch during Spooky Season
I LOVE a good scary movie and the last few weeks I have been watching a few while I am cooking dinner or just working on blog posts/designs. I love the spooky season. I tend to only watch scary movies during October and the beginning of November, occasionally I will watch one but it’s usually only during spooky season.
10 Scary Movies
- Halloween (the original) ~ Nothing can beat Jamie Lee Curtis, the scream queen as she fights the boogey man. I tend to watch this only when it comes on TV and like to watch the second one right after. I am not a fan of the new movies so don’t even ask.
- Friday the 13th (the original) ~ The BOY, did you find the BOY! The original will always be my favorite and I love how all her friends are dead and she is making tea waiting for Bill to come back. I also tend to like to watch the second one right after this and the 3rd. After that I am totally out, however Freddy vs Jason wasn’t too back. Jason in space was just stupid! lol
- The Shining ~ This movie even now still creeps me out. Jack is a dull boy and a complete loon. I always felt this was more weird than scary but I still enjoyed it just as much.
- Funhouse ~ While a little harder to find there is nothing like going into an abandoned circus and getting killed by a crazy person in a funhouse…fun times.
- Sleepy Hollow ~ Not super scary but a fun type of scary. I LOVE this movie, If you have never seen the Tim Burton version you must watch it. It is so good. I love the dark and creepy, plus the horsemen is Christopher Walken with creepy teeth.
- Rose Red ~ I haven’t seen this movie in forever but I love it. It is a made for TV Movie written by Steven King. It’s similar to the Winchester house where the house builds itself but creepier. I also read the book that as based on the Movie.
- JAWS ~ I was even scared to swim in a pool
- Night of the Living Dead ~ Because Zombies and they scare me, I have an irrational fear of zombies but this is still a good movie! 🙂
- Poltergeist ~ A classic, during spooky season I even listen to the soundtrack. Still don’t understand how while digging the pool they didn’t find the coffins because that pool was really deep.
- The First Horror Movie Ever Made— “The House of the Devil” 1896— Georges Méliès— Le Manoir du Diable ~ Trust me! Watch it HERE, it’s only 3 minutes and 40 seconds. TOTALLY worth the watch and you can officially say you watch the first horror movie ever made.
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Michelle named this with “or not so scary” because y’all will probably laugh at my list. I scare super easily and make a point of not watching movies that will scare me too badly. But these are the movies I’ve managed to watch (I have not watched 1 movie from Michelle’s list, though I’ve started some of them) from beginning to end that have scared the bejeezus out of me.
- Saw – only the first one, because you couldn’t convince me to watch another one after the first one.
- Final Destination – again, only the first one. same reason. no convincing me to watch another one.
- Arachnophobia – I’m not even scared of spiders, but this movie had me jumping for weeks. I did watch it when I was like 10 years old, to be fair.
- The Birds – I only vaguely remember this movie because I watched it once and a good part of it I was hiding under a pillow.
- The Ring – holy shit, that girl crawling out of the TV!! I took the tv out of the bedroom for a while after that one so I could sleep!
- The Hills Have Eyes – So creepy! If I hadn’t paid to see this one, I probably wouldn’t have finished it. Who dragged me to see this at the theater? Kiko, who got a kick out of my response, BTW.
- Devil – They all get stuck in an elevator and shit happens. I don’t remember this one very well, I watched most of it hiding my face in Kiko’s shirt at a theater.
- Paranormal Activity – The “found footage” genre is too much for me. Holy shit. It makes my home feel unsafe. And they got me to watch a few of them… they finish off my list.
- Paranormal Activity 2 – yeah they got me to watch another one. I’m not sure how. I slept like shit for weeks.
- Paranormal Activity 3 – I think my memory must have failed me, because somehow I was convinced to watch a 3rd one. I honestly think I haven’t watched a “horror” movie since this one though.
Not saying these movies are good, but they scared me. And they may be the only 10 scary movies I’ve ever watched LOL! I had to dig to come up with 10!
The Ring scared the absolute crap out of me! When I was about 8 I went to a sleepover and we watched Pet Semetary (my mother was LIVID when she found out) and it was traumatizing! It was years before I watched another even vaguely scary movie. I love Hitchcock movies for creepiness – particularly any that have Cary Grant. That man can do vaguely sinister so perfectly. This year in a Not So Scary movie list my goal is to watch Hocus Pocus. I’ve never seen it but it looks like a fun one to watch.
Totally recommend The Chipmunks meet the wolfman. It’s the cutest movie and the songs are fun. When I was, I think about 8-ish I had a sleepover and we watched the exorcist. I didn’t sleep for weeks. Hitchcock movies are the best….especially Psycho. Hocus Pocus is the best movie, I have plans to watch it next weekend with my daughter.
The Birds is a great movie, I actually enjoyed it a lot and as a kid thought it was creepy. I even now question why all those birds are sometimes in a parking lot, staring at me.
I hate spiders so that movie always creeped me out. It wasn’t really scary for me but more ecky. lol
Your list is pretty good and I am quite impressed by the movies you have watched. Just watch the first horror movie ever made. You will not be disappointed!
I love spooky month but for some reason don’t watch a lot of scary films? That’s weird I guess! I did go see em as a teenager though so I’ve seen most of the older ones. 🙂 I love the Birds though!!!
I have been trying to watch at least one a day or a few on the weekends. I just got the Shudder network so I can watch a bunch of crazy ones. 🙂